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Tony-Nominated Sadie Sink Talks ‘John Proctor Is The Villain’, ‘Stranger Things’ And Joining The Marvel Universe – Deadline Q&A
Deadline's Q&A with the Tony-nominated actress Sadie Sink.
For her unsettling and remarkably affecting performance in John Proctor, Sink, who shot to fame in 2016 when she joined the second season of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things as Maxine “Max” Mayfield, has been Tony-nominated for Best Leading Actress In A Play. Belflower’s play, directed on Broadway by Danya Taymor (another Tony nominee, and a winner for last year’s The Outsiders) is set in a small-town Georgia high school in 2018, the height of the MeToo movement. Like Abigail in The Crucible, young Shelby has been misused and abandoned by an older man – whether Miller knew it or not, John Proctor really is the villain – and Belflower draws an unmistakeable line from that classic depiction of the Salem witch trials (and McCarthy-era allegory) to this “one-stoplight town” in 2018.
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